Daily Archives: February 27, 2008

Here are some notes from the scene of the latest House of Commons security breach.

- The protesters (Greenpeace?) came in as visitors. The yellow stickers on their jackets give it away. There are up to half a dozen of them. With the help of the security cameras at the visitors entrance, it shouldn’t be hard to find out who let them in. If the Commons pass-holder was aware of what they were up to (and looking at how these people are dressed they were not here for a pleasant meeting with an MP) they are in for a rough ride. Is this criminal? Read more

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Jim Pickard is the FT's chief political correspondent, having joined the lobby team in January 2008. He has been at the FT since 1999 as a regional correspondent, assistant UK news editor and property correspondent.

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